INTERIOR DESIGNER IN HARPENDEN
Mandeville Home provides complete interior design for family homes and substantial renovations in Harpenden. From early space planning and bespoke joinery through to furniture sourcing, procurement and final installation, we create deeply personal homes while quietly managing the hundreds of decisions required to bring them together.
FULL HOME DESIGN AND FF&E DELIVERY
For clients renovating a period home, working with their own architect and contractor.
For forever-home projects — usually a period property that needs proper structural work before the interiors can happen. The architect and main contractor are your appointments and your contracts. We work alongside them on the interior design, then take full ownership of the FF&E through Mandeville Home so the finished interiors land the way they were designed.
FULL TURNKEY DESIGN
For clients who want the whole thing quietly taken care of.
The most common way clients work with us. We're briefed on a set of rooms — sometimes three, sometimes the whole house — and we handle every part of the design and delivery from there. Design, sourcing, procurement, subcontractor coordination, install day itself.
You approve. We do the rest.
Designing Homes Around the Families Who Live in Them
Most of our clients arrive without knowing how to describe what they want.
That's not a problem — it's where the work starts.
We spend time understanding how you actually live. The mornings that need to run smoothly. The evenings that need to unwind. The rooms that hold the family together, and the corners that hold you together. Only once we understand the life the home has to hold do we begin designing the home itself.
The result is interiors that feel personal without being predictable. Considered without being cold.
Beautifully layered — but always in service of how you'll use them, not how they'll photograph.
The elorza Home
HARPENDEN, HERTFORDSHIRE
A Harpenden family home designed around personality, where every member of the family gets a room that feels like theirs, and the whole house still holds together as one.
Full Turnkey Design | Photography: Tom Allport
The Brief
Our client came to us with something specific in mind.
She didn't want a house designed for the grown-ups with children's rooms tacked on. She wanted a home where every family member could see themselves in it — kids included. And she wanted the whole thing to hold together. Warmth, harmony and real personality in the same rooms. Not a series of themed spaces. Definitely not a magazine set.
how we did it
The starting point wasn't a mood board. It was a conversation with each member of the family — including the children.
Layout, colour, furniture: everyone got a say in the rooms that would become theirs. Bespoke joinery in the kids' spaces was designed to hold and celebrate their art — actual art, made by them, framed and displayed rather than filed away in a drawer. Headboards were upholstered with integrated reading lamps and power points — practical luxury that only reads as thoughtful once you notice it.
The adults' spaces were designed with the same care, tuned quieter. Serene where the kids' spaces are playful. Considered where theirs are exuberant. Different registers of the same idea, held together by a consistent hand on materials, palette and craft.
the result
Individuality without chaos. Harmony without uniformity.
The kids' rooms feel like theirs. The adults' spaces feel like theirs. The whole house feels like it belongs to all of them.
Not a family home decorated to look impressive. A family home designed to actually work for the family who lives in it.
HOW IT WORKS
Every interior design project moves through the same five stages. Some are quick, some take months. Your project sets the pace.
Initial conversation
A proper first meeting — free, unhurried, on site where possible. We listen to what you're trying to achieve, ask the questions no-one else has, and get a feel for whether we're the right studio for you. No moodboards yet.
Proposal and agreement
A clear scope, a fee proposal, and a realistic timescale. Nothing hidden, nothing left vague. You know what you're saying yes to before you say it.
DESIGN
Layout, direction, concept, and detailed room-by-room design. Materials, joinery, furniture, lighting. Presentations, revisions, and a final design you're genuinely excited about — not just resigned to.
PROCUREMENT
Everything gets sourced, ordered, and coordinated. Furniture, finishes, joinery, lighting, decoration. Delivered into our warehouse, held ready for install day.
INSTALL
Delivery, install and final styling — usually completed in a single day. You come home to a finished house.
Planning a Home Renovation in Harpenden?
If you’re considering renovating, furnishing or reworking your Harpenden home, the best time to begin the interior-design conversation is before too many decisions have been fixed. Get in touch to arrange an initial, unhurried conversation about your project.